When I read tripadvisor posts complaining about the long queues for tickets, hours-long wait to get up the cable car to Aiguille du Midi station (3777m), overpriced tickets, how bad weather foiled the best of plans etc etc, I realised those comments were true. Many moons later, when […]
One day, all it takes to appreciate Cinque Terre Monterosso was sleepy quiet when we walked out from the train carriage at 0820. Within a minute and we were already standing next to the coast facing a swath of blue, feeling the sea breeze on our face. Refreshed, […]
The path to Bertone, is a boring paved road 8am. All was quiet. There’s nobody but us. Mr Croux told us to head to the church in the centre of the town then look for Strada Villair. We were told to walk along Strada Villair. Strada Villair was […]
Ode to Friends It’s true, having friends help widen one’s horizons. Someone proposes a crazy idea, another acts on it and then you find yourself being swept along. Buoyed, raised, pushed beyond your boundaries. It’s really good to have friends. I’d never have run a marathon, if not […]
After Typhoon Lan, a day of perfect weather The gamble paid off. A day earlier, we queued for over an hour at the Kanazawa JR ticket office because some shinkansen lines were stalled due to Typhoon Lan. We were skeptical that the weather would really be fine like mountain-forecast.com predicted but […]
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